Max Browne

We're gonna talk about the teams that are actually going to make the college football playoff and how they're gonna do it.

We got Max Browne, ESPN analyst, man, film breakdown guy on YouTube, former five-star quarterback in the building today.

We talking to him.

We got the Maryland head coach hot board, the hater version though.

That is going to be the issue.

They are going to stop this team, and it is going to be a 23-20 Tennessee victory.

We got a great guest in the building today, Mr. Max Browne, ESPN College Football Analyst.

You can find his channel on YouTube too.

... let me know how to pronounce it.

It said, "Have you all, uh, seen the Arch breakdown by former USC, uh, quarterback Max Brown of The Sark? It would seem Sark, uh, calling great plays, but Arch has processing issues." Um, I did see that breakdown, and I thought it was well done.

I did, too.

Yeah.

We've got a great show for y'all today.

Dane Brugler and myself were joined by a very special guest, Max Browne of "The Athletic Live," and also former USC and Pitt quarterback joined us for an in-depth conversation about the 2027 quarterback class.

Yes, that includes a detailed dive on the problems with Arch Manning, as well as a host of other prospects.

Got to plenty more.

Let's get right to it.

[upbeat music] Well, Dane, I'm excited for every episode we do, but I'm particularly excited for today 'cause I love you, man, but it's just you and me a lot of the time, and I'm, I'm always wary of, like, creating an echo chamber between the two of us.

And so I think halfway through the college season, what better time to introduce a new voice, a new perspective? And we've got a hell of a good one today as we are being joined by co-host of "The Athletic Live," ESPN ACC college football analyst, Max Browne.

How you doing, man? Good to talk to you.

I like the film, guys, man.

I like Max.

I like Brooks.

I like him.

We have to do it too, right? We only are picking six plays to show you.

That's just the weakness of the thing.

So Max has picked six plays that go hard on Arch, frankly.

And then he says that it has nothing to do with play calls.

What a great name.

2013, Max Brown.

2014, Kyle Allen.

2015, Jared Stidham.

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Charles McDonald joined by Max Browne.

How we doing, Max?

We're living life large.

Welcome to The Athletic Live, presented by Google Gemini.

I'm Charles McDonald, joined by Jonathan Jones, Max Browne.

We just finished watching the Falcons beat the crap-

I mean, goodness

Yeah.

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Travis Valak, Max Browne.

Over there, Jonathan Jones.

I think they've upgraded overall defensive personnel, but it's just not working.

Max Brown's former, you know, he's from Washington and he does a good job breaking down film.

We do some collaboration collaborations on YouTube of his film breakdowns.

And he was showing some of the communication issues and defensive struggles that that USC was having and just pointing out like three guys in the linebackers that are basically like dropping into areas where there's just grass.

Well, look, Shane Foley and I have done some breaking down of videos this year.

You see Max Brown do it.

You've seen other people do it.

And what you see over and over and over again from this USC team, particularly defensively, is you see people lined up wrong, people not knowing their assignments, people not doing the basics.

I'm a wreck right now.

Yeah, I mean, I'm assuming you might have watched Max Brown's breakdown of this game.

I'm not.

I try not to watch

could turn it around.

It's got a lot of work to do.

The defense in particular, the thing that I think might can still happen is because there's been so much confusion in the defense, uh, And I look forward to watching that Max Brown breakdown after and seeing what all he said.

But I was seeing similar things where, like, occasionally there's guys that are headers return when the ball is being snapped, trying to communicate a lot of stuff, a lot of communication trying to go on.